Light and heavy British civil defence rescue squad men, with party leader Warwick directing operations after German aircraft blitz bomb attack during World War II in London, England. Light and heavy rescue squad workers at work. Warwick directs colleague. Butler stands nearby bucket as it is filled with debris. Some workers wear helmets with letters "HR" on them denoting Heavy Rescue. Rescue worker finds a casualty. Smith with hands on knees watching. Men watch. Views as rescue workers remove the dead body from debris and wrap it in a shroud.
Ambulances and rescue parties at work after bomb attack during World War II in London, England. View of field hospital operations for receiving wounded following German blitz aircraft bombing attacks. Nurses straighten out hospital ward and prepare bedding and bandages.
A man checks United States B-24 bomber named "Skylark" at an airbase in England during World War II. Men work on various parts of B-24s and turn propellers. B-17s also seen on the airfield.
8th Air Force Replacement Center in Stafford, England. Women's Army Corps (WAC) walking in queue with eating utensils. One of the WAC member seen with bugler as others entering in the mess. Various messages stenciled on backs of some of the women's uniforms, including, "Top Kick Lets Go On the Double" and "I dood it". WAC women serving themselves and eating at the tables. Three WAC women cleaning the mess utensils in the garden while one is seen at the window. One at the window talking with the other in the ground and polishing a shoe. WAC marching towards the air force base in uniforms while band is seen in the background. WAC enters the ground and band players are also seen. WAC salutes the senior officers.
In the first exchange of Allied and Axis wounded prisoners of war, the British Hospital Ship, Atlantis, with number 33 painted on her side, steams into port, at Leith, Scotland, (and then on to Liverpool, England) during World War 2. She is returning Allied wounded from Germany, by way of Goeteborg, Sweden. British soldiers are carried off ship on stretchers. Several ambulatory American soldiers leave ship on foot. Railroad train seen right at the port.
A joint amphibious training of the United States Army and the Navy at Crow point at the assault training center in Devon, England during World War II. United States troops huddled up on a hill at the beach. Soldiers lounge on the hill. Two soldiers walk away as they move down the hill. Some of the soldiers in a fox hole. A U.S. Army Sherman tank being loaded onto an LCM ( Landing Craft Mechanized ). Another Sherman tank rolls on the beach. The tank backs into the LCM. The tank aboard the LCM as a ramp is raised.
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